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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

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Ruby Stockham
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The PAC is concerned about high staff vacancy rates and a lack of money for incentives

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James Bloodworth
6 March, 2015

NHS A&E departments in England have once again failed to meet a target of seeing 95 per cent patients within four hours

IFS finds that the most deprived areas have seen the deepest cuts

Ruby Stockham
5 March, 2015

Planned spending cuts for 2015-16 are likely to return to the same areas to squeeze them further

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Ruby Stockham
5 March, 2015

Human rights abuses, public dissatisfaction and a failure to get the numbers down make Australia a curious role model for Farage

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Ruby Stockham
5 March, 2015

Figures uncovered by Labour show the extortionate amounts letting agents are charging their tenants

Is aid money benefiting small farmers in Africa – or big agribusiness companies?

Ian Fitzpatrick
5 March, 2015

We must stand up against trade agreements which give corporations new powers to grab land, monopolise seed distribution and benefit from an export-to-the-West model of growth

Even Murphy knows the latest poll is bad news for Scottish Labour

Ed Jacobs
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Ruby Stockham
5 March, 2015

A new report by Shelter shows how drastically house price inflation has outstripped earnings

The NHS has never been in more danger

Kailash Chand
4 March, 2015

Private sector providers want to down-skill medical staff to make them easier to fire, more biddable, and above all, cheaper

Tory MP hit by criticism over lucrative second job

Ruby Stockham
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Rival candidates unite in condemnation of Mark Lancaster’s £150 per hour consultancy work

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